Manager, Product

As our company continues to grow, we are looking for qualified candidates to fill the role of Product Manager reporting to a Product Director on the Platforms – Product team.

The Product Leadership team is responsible for owning and delivering internal platform components and externally facing client applications.

As a Product Manager, you can expect to work with peers from Program, Technology, Sales Engineering, Operations and Measurement leaders on a cross-functional team to help design, drive, deliver strategic initiatives from ideation through rollout.

What will you do?

• Manage and assist analyst roles in learning their job duties.
• Participate in roadmap planning and feature prioritization to define the future of the NielsenIQ Connect platform.
• Support the delivery of your product to meet the goals, customer segments and use cases defined by your product.
• Develop user stories and requirements based on a combination of your own strong product instincts, market research, and direct client feedback. 
• Collaborate with user experience team, providing feedback on designs.
• Work with your scrum team(s) to groom, size and detail out acceptance criteria for user stories and requirements.
• Work with your scrum team(s) under the agile methodology to plan, execute, and deploy product features.
• Work with your product owner(s) to prioritize backlog items into sprints.
• Work closely with your scrum team(s) to troubleshoot feature bugs and test to ensure appropriate fixes are implemented.
• Build supporting materials as necessary, such as training or FAQ documents.
• Be responsible for user acceptance testing as a proxy for internal and external clients, as they match your user journey.

What you bring?

• You possess above average logic and problem-solving skills.
• You communicate effectively, and have demonstrated the ability to influence strategic stakeholders, and clients.
• You have experience building software as an engineer or you have previous experience in a product role.
• You are a fast learner, who thrives operating in new and unknown territory.

Academic:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering

Technical:

• Demonstrable experience with software development planning tools such as JIRA.
• Demonstrable experience working with wireframe software such as Figma.
• Demonstrable experience working with services provided by major cloud service providers: GCP, AWS, ADLS.
• Demonstrable experience with API development.

Bonus Points:

• Experience managing a team.
• Familiarity with Retailer scan and Panel data.
• Experience in finance.
• Experience coding in Python, VBA, Java
• Exposure to both functional and object-oriented coding paradigms.
• Exposure to micro-service architectures.
• Exposure to Jupyter Notebooks.
• Exposure to ML/AI.

Agile/Scrum certification – Product Owner

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™.

NIQ, is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit NIQ.com.

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NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us.

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